Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is the author of fifteen books, including Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, a sequel to her bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas that is due out in November (and co-authored with Rebecca Snedeker); and The Faraway Nearby, an anti-memoir that will be published in June. Among her other books are A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. She has worked as an independent writer and scholar since 1988 and is, from kindergarten to graduate school, a product of the California public educational system.